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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Sahagún, Bernadino de, -1590
Anderson, Arthur J. O
Dibble, Charles E.
Title:
General history of the things of New Spain: Florentine codex:
book 7 -- the sun, moon, and stars, and the binding of the years
Published By: Original publisher
Sante Fe, New Mexico: The School of American Research and
the University of Utah. 1953. viii, 81 p., 7 plates ill.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
Fray Bernadino de Sahagún ; translated from the Aztec, with
notes and illustrations, by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 2017. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Aztecs (NU07)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Ethnometeorology (821);
Ethnogeography (823);
Verbal arts (5310);
Pregnancy (843);
Preventive medicine (751);
Prayers and sacrifices (782);
Revelation and divination (787);
Ethnozoology (825);
Diet (262);
Ordering of time (805);
Organized ceremonial (796);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Franciscan missionary Sahagún presaged modern
ethnography when, beginning the 1540s, he initiated a project to better comprehend
pre-Conquest Aztec ideology and culture, interviewing elderly elites and having the data
transcribed and illustrated by multilingual native scholars over a period of some thirty
years. This is an English language translation of the original side-by-side Spanish and
Nahuatl text, with alternative text in the Appendix. It deals with Aztec ethnometeorology,
and with the calendrical system and associated practices.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
5
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
nu07-005
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Monograph
Language: Language that the document is written in
English translation from Aztec
Note:
Uniform title: Historia general de las cosas de Nueva
España. English & Aztec
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1540-1579
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data
Missionary-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
James R. Leary ; 1958
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
1500-1579
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
central highland Mexico
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Indians of Mexico--Antiquities/Aztecs/Natural
history--Mexico/Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540/Mexico--Antiquities
